All posts tagged "Hospitalbasedphysician"

PHILADELPHIA — Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled. Fifteen-month-old Zariya Sutton-Pack wheezed as she waited for medical attention on a hospital gurney. Her chest and rib cage heaved under a white cotton onesie. It looked as though she were trying to draw air through a collapsed paper straw. "I just burst into tears this morning. I was so scared," said her mom, Tyshanek Sutton, ......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A last-minute witness jolted the trial of a man suing Amtrak and a Marysville hospital after his legs were cut off by a passing train as he lay on the tracks early on Christmas Eve 2016. Joseph Nevis is suing Amtrak, Marysville’s Rideout Hospital and an emergency room doctor for $32 million over the incident, an event that occurred after Yuba City police found him on the street and had him taken to the hospital as being too intoxicated for jail. Nevis has testified that he has no memory of what happened to him that night or how he ended up on the train tracks after leaving......

CHICAGO – Chicago emergency room doctor Meeta Shah wiped down her face shield and stethoscope as she rushed from one patient to the next, some of them very sick with COVID-19, some of them dying. At home, she worried about how to keep her husband — also an ER doctor — and her two young children safe from the virus: Shower at work? Stop hugging the kids? And then there were the challenges of supervising her children’s remote learning, of a sudden gap in child care, of work emails that stretched past midnight. “It just really started to feel like a lot. It felt like my mind was loud, all the wor......